Rives, Oakley Beebe

Summary

Father: Charles William Rives
Mother: Carol S. Curtius

Birth: 21 Jun 1888, Greene County, Illinois
Birth Source: Reliques of the Rives, WWI Card

Death: 1 Mar 1955, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
Death Source: Headstone, Death Certificate

Spouse1: Reta Frances Bauer, m. 2 Sep 1915

Narrative

Children of Oakley Beebe Rives and Reta Frances Bauer:

1. William Bauer Rives, b. 1 Jan 1917
2. Phillip Edward Rives, b. 22 Oct 1922

From Reliques of the Rives:
Oakley Beebe Rives, born near Fayette, Illinois, was graduated from the Greenfield High School, and from the College of Agriculture of the University of Illinois (B. A.) in 1910, where he took an active part in athletics and was a member of the University football team. For a number of years he farmed on the homeplace, Thistledown Farm; but since 1926 he has been Lay Inspector, Bureau of Animal Industry, Department of Agriculture, Union Stockyards, Chicago.

Sources

Birth:        World War I Draft Registration Card, Oakley Beebe Rives, 1917
Death:      Headstone, Oakwood Cemetery, Greene County, Illinois
                   Illinois, Cook County Deaths, 1878-1994 (FamilySearch)
Census:    1910 Census - Greene County, Illinois (HOH - Charles W Rives)
                   1920 Census - Greene County, Illinois
                   1930 Census - DuPage County, Illinois
History:   Childs, James Rives. Reliques of the Rives, p200